Android Press Queries Open for Novellas, Novels, Anthologies, and Collections
Android Press, publisher of Solarpunk Magazine, is currently open for general submission queries for punk-themed science fiction/fantasy Adult, New Adult, and YA manuscripts. The general submission window is scheduled to be open through April 2022. Please do not query unless you have a completed manuscript you are prepared to submit upon request.
Some Basics
We are are a punk-themed outfit seeking to publish science fiction, fantasy, and light horror works with speculative elements, including:
- novellas (17,000–40,000 words)
- short story collections [single author] (40,000–60,000 words)
- short story anthologies [numerous authors] (40,000–60,000 words)
- novels (60,000–100,000 words)
Please do not submit more than one manuscript at a time.
Please allow 60–90 for a response.
If you haven’t received a response after three months, feel free to inquire at droidpress13@gmail.com.
All manuscripts must have a science fiction or fantasy element that is central to story or world to be considered.
We love narratives that are:
- about scrappy, swashbuckling underdogs fighting to built a better world.
- utopian, hopeful, dream big, and/or point us in the right direction.
- focused on communities struggling to create a future in which nature, technology, and humanity coexist in harmony.
- rooted in solving real world global social problems such as climate change and ecological destruction, authoritarian political systems, white supremacy, and corporate empire building. Yes, even when they take place in distant galaxies.
How much do we pay?
We currently offer two payout structure options:
- Advance of $1000 plus royalties
- No advance with a higher royalty percentage
What rights are we buying?
We are buying first world English electronic, print, and audio rights.
Manuscript Wish List
- Solarpunk stories
- Lunarpunk stories
- Cyberpunk-Solarpunk transition stories
- Cyberpunk stories
- Ecopunk stories
- Steampunk stories
- Any of the above that include magical/fantasy elements
In addition we would love to see the following in our submission inbox:
- Stories written by Indigenous, BIPOC, womxn, immigrant, and LGBTQIA2+ authors that bring their valuable cultural perspectives and experiences to the science fiction and fantasy worlds, and to solutions for building a better world.
- Stories that have protagonists from marginalized communities, and plots that center those communities.
- Stories that take place in non-Western geographic and cultural settings.
- Stories of unlikely allies that have at least some focus on the complexities of that difficult relationship.
- Stories set in far flung distant futures, and/or set in space in which the characters are connected to Old Earth through myths or legends that are important to their communities and worlds.
- Stories in which nature becomes a character in its own right
- Stories that center nonhumans, and that depict humans learning to relate to nonhumans in ways not rooted in domination and power dynamics.
Hard No’s
- First books in a series that don’t work as standalone story.
- Stories with solutions presented are greenwashing, capitalist, or rooted in uncritical consumerism
- Stories depicting monarchies, colonialism, imperialism, fascism, or other forms of authoritarianism in an uncritical way
- Stories depicting racism, white supremacy, sexism, cis-heteronormativity, ableism, or fatphobia in an uncritical way
- Gratuitous violence, especially if is targeted against any marginalized group
- Gore. If it’s truly integral to plot or character and it only occurs sporadically, then we might consider it.
- Porn or erotica. Eroticism and sex that is in service of the story is fine, but if it’s the focus of your manuscript or takes up an inordinate amount of space, there are other publisher’s out there who publish such work.
- Picture books or Middle Grade novels. It’s not that we won’t ever publish these, but if we do it’ll probably be by solicitation only.
- Epic/Sword and Sorcery Fantasy. Again, it’s not that we’ll publish book like this from us, but it’s not something we’ll take open submissions for.
Query Letter
Your query letter should include ALL the following:
Cover Page
- name
- email address
- category (novella, anthology, collection, or novel)
- manuscript word count
- bio of 100 words or less.
Page 2: Pitch
- a 1–2 paragraph attention grabbing summary of the book
- Comp titles: other published book are similar in genre and other ways to your book
- Target Audience: genre, subgenre (if any), age group (Adult or YA), and anything else particular or relevant about people who you think will want to read your book.
Page 3: Synopsis
- Please provide a complete Table of Contents with a short, succinct, one paragraph description of each chapter. (chapter titles can be numbers)
- Alternately, if your manuscript contains A LOT of chapters, then you can provide a detailed summary of the story that is between 750–100 words long.
